· Private foundation
Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| USC GOLD SCHOOL OF LAW | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CENTER | $15,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LA FIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LA PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| UCLA LUSKIN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| US AGAINST ALZHEIMERS | $5,000 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +48%
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +28%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRENTWOOD FUNDone grant, 2018 · $12k
- CMCABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -27%
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER OF WILSHIRE BLVD TEMPLEone grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Weingart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Unger Family Foundation · Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust Conservatorship · Maccabee Task Force Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Katz Family Foundation · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Ruth Lavine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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